William James Quotes

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.

when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.